dismissing vaccinated soldiers, are any of them on high alert to go to in terms of the army, who they re discharging with respect to the vaccine mandate, but i expect there s privacy concerns there, so i don t want to speak for the army, but i don t know if thaw i ll be able to give you this level of specify ti. it remains a readiness issue. vaccines work, and we want everybody to take them and to keep safe, to keep their units safe. as for the helicopter crew, my understanding is that they re all fine. as we said at the top, there were no u.s. casualties, and that would include the helicopter crew. it wasn t a crash landing. they landed safely. again, it was a drivetrain issue that rendered that helicopter unusable for the rest of the operation. so obviously it was destroyed, but the crew are safe and sound.
third floor, three others went with him. and we know of at least one child that was killed on the second floor. but, you know, i don t have much more information to give you than that. any civilians under u.s. custody right now? there is nobody in u.s. custody as a result of this raid. what was the mechanical issue with the helicopter? i would describe it as a drivetrain issue that rendered it not usable for future flight in the operation. was there a fire or something? it didn t catch fire. it was a drivetrain issue. it didn t crash. it landed safely at an alternative location. they looked at it to determine whether it can be fixed and continue to be used in the operation, and it was determined
0 the control of central command. tony. two quick questions. what happened to his body? was it carried away like with bin laden s body or too badly damaged? and two, administration officials told reporters today this had been planned for a long, long time, the president was presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or the building. why was the raid now versus two or three weeks ago or a month ago? can you shed any light on that? yeah. his body was left at the site. as for the time being, it is correct, this was a mission long planned, months in planning as i mentioned to jen, but, look, you have to build enough context around the individual s pattern of life, and you have to factor in external factors that you don t get to control like the weather. so lots of things go into make a decision about when you execute a raid of this complexity and this danger, and there were a lot of factors that had to line up to be just right. you have to, you know, make sure that you